What Email Is Best For Getting Less Spam, Too Much Spam

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My current email account is with GMX, i have been more than happy with it. I changed from gmail to gmx because i am sick of the way google has taken over everything. I keep a gmail account as basic as possible purely for smartphone use, i dont use this email address for emails.

Somehow my gmx email has got into the hands of spammers, i dont know if this was through using comparison sites or registering for some website. Another issue was i got an email from my energy company (small provider) who said they had accidentally sent emails to customers with everyone's email included the the 'to' field, or something like that. So i don't know if this was the problem.

I now get bombarded with about 20 to 30 spam emails, gmx is not even filtering them at their end. SO they come to my windows live mail client which is sending them to the spam folder. I now have to glance through them all to ensure no good emails are there.

Is my best option creating a new email address? If so what is the best for avoiding spam. How does one ensure i dont get into this situation again?
 
If your current provider aren't doing decent spam filtering then that's pretty annoying, but then they are "free".

I switched from Gmail to fastmail in January and haven't look back, mainly for the privacy, but the spam filtering seems fine, not had anything sneak through yet.

I've also heard excellent things about ProtonMail and Kolab.
 
joeyjojo said:
If your current provider aren't doing decent spam filtering then that's pretty annoying, but then they are "free".

I switched from Gmail to fastmail in January and haven't look back, mainly for the privacy, but the spam filtering seems fine, not had anything sneak through yet.

I've also heard excellent things about ProtonMail and Kolab.
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I was like you, changed to gmx and never looked back, now a couple of years later this has happened. So i guess you dont really know how good it is against spam until this happens.

I also have my email address on my cv and it is on many job sites, i also have applied for loadsa jobs, im also registered on many forums and websites. This is causing me huge grief.
 
MarcLister said:
Say you bought your own domain such as sarebaws.co.uk. You could then set up Google Apps on that domain to have an email address such as [email protected]. You'd be able to login to your email and have a Gmail interface to access it with.
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Ah this does sound long winded ha ha, how is this better for spam, if someone gets a hold of my main email address the same will happen again, is this not the case?
 
sare^baw's said:
I changed from gmail to gmx because i am sick of the way google has taken over everything.
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MarcLister said:
Say you bought your own domain such as sarebaws.co.uk. You could then set up Google Apps on that domain to have an email address such as [email protected]. You'd be able to login to your email and have a Gmail interface to access it with.
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I understood the OP wanted to move away from google
 
Don't know if I've been extremely lucky but I've used the same hotmail email address for over 10 years (since I was 12) and I get about 1 spam email a week. Mostly coming from accounts that I've traded with on the member's market.
 
I have three emails. I use protonmail for personal correspondance, gmail for my apps and all that lovely crap, and one specifically for junk mail.
 
panyan said:
I understood the OP wanted to move away from google
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They'd have to explain the reasoning behind that other than "sick of the way Google have taken over everything". Google Apps has a different privacy policy to Gmail, and is a very good email service. If not using Google is a personal choice thing then do the same reservations apply to Microsoft?

Spam isn't a thing that happens because someone 'gets hold' of your email address. Filters will generally deal with it for you, but if you end up on a bunch of mailing lists due to signing up for them then that sort of stuff will still make it to your inbox.
 
sare^baw's said:
yes, also i dont mind paying a little amount for an email account if it meant no spam. I dont know what the secret is.
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Pick a reputable non-free supplier then, they should all have pretty decent spam filtering as that's pretty much expected of a paid email provider these days.

Re. post #3, yes transitioning is annoying, I'll still use my Gmail for another 6 months or so before I consider shutting it down completely.

billysielu said:
I found this mail rule to be super effective:
If [has attachment] then [delete]
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Is this a joke? I guess you don't use it for work. I'd miss a lot of important emails with that rule.
 
another option is you use google free email account and then just forward with IMAP to thunderbird or another 3rd part email managment tool (outlook ?) where you can manage criteria for removing spam yourself.
I was doing this but started using gmail directly in the FF browser after changing laptop, but need to change back since gmail interface is poor (handling of screen snippits, no send again) with local email I think this is also then being scanned by your antivirus ?
 
Thanks everyone for the replies. Im not a fan of hotmail either. I just want email. No mutliple other things just for one account like google has an abundance of stuff just for needing a gmail account. Hotmail and some of the other big ones will be similar. Thats why i like gmx, its just an email account.

The spam is getting it over the top, its getting filtered well when it hits my email cliet, windows live mail, its not good when a few times a day you have to sift through the spam to see if good emails are there. I could like with a few spam emails a day but im getting close to 40 a day now.

The gmx spam filter is not working and i have wrote to support. I have one email in my blocked list, this same email address is still getting through and there is not spam emails in the spam folder.

Someone suggested having a few email accounts, i think this is a good idea, that way if this happens again its not as big a job changing your email everywhere.

Edit - for experimental purposes, i set up gmail to collect my gmx emails, it filtered 41 spam emails and kept 3 good ones.
 
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I just use Yahoo mail and set up an alternative "base" address to which you can add a little bit on the end for every site you visit. Then if you find you are getting bombarded by spam, you can change that site's email address to a new one and delete the old one.

e.g. My main email could be [email protected] then you can set up an alternative base address of [email protected]

Now that [email protected] doesn't work on its own, you have to add bits. So if you signed up to amazon, you could set up the email as [email protected], for sainsburys [email protected]

They are all different and say you started getting a lot of spam on one, you could change [email protected] to [email protected] and then delete martinsmith-amazon.

All the emails to all the aliases go to the one inbox and you can pick the address you want to send emails from when you write one.
 
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